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MACEDO (José Agostinho de). CARTA de J.A.D.M. a seu Amigo J.J.P.L.. Lisboa. 1827. - MACEDO (José Agostinho de) CARTA de J.A.D.M. a seu Amigo J.J.P.L. . Lisboa: Na Impressão Régia, 1827. 32 cartas.; 215 mm. First edition of one of José Agostinho de Macedo 's most violent diatribes against Enlightenment thought, constitutional government, and everything that contradicted his fierce absolutism. The letters are addressed to Joaquim José Pedro Lopes , a friend and political co-religionist of the author. According to Inocêncio , the work was a great editorial success, and Macedo himself commented, ironically, that it was ”the first time I had seen so much money together.” A central figure in early 19th-century Portuguese pamphleteering, Macedo (1761–1831) stood out for his impetuous and scathing style, which combined erudition and vernacularism in an unprecedented tone of combat. A secularized priest in 1792, he would become a royal preacher from 1802 onward and one of the most feared polemicists of his time. Convinced of his own literary superiority, he attacked Homer and Camões, even claiming that his epic *The Orient* would teach how *The Lusiads* should have been written. The work described here is exemplary of his aggressive genius and verbal energy, which, despite the exaggeration, guarantee Macedo a unique place in the history of Portuguese polemical prose. ! Please note that this translated text was generated by Google. !